ECON 2420 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: The Maritimes, Mercantilism, Navigation Acts
29 Nov 2017
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A history of the canadian economy chapter #4: the atlantic colonies. The period from 1763 1850 is arguably the most dramatic in atlantic. At the periods beginning, newfoundland and the maritimes barely qualified as permanent settlements: newfoundland was an important base for migratory fisherman from, perhaps 7300 individuals residing over the winter in newfoundland. Britain in the (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:887)(cid:882)"s: the position of the maritimes was not much stronger, with only a few thousand residents made up of fishermen, subsistence farmers, soldiers, and a few traders and merchants. War broke out again in europe in 1793, and ran with some interruption to. 1815 which imposed great hardship on newfoundland fishery. In the late (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:890)(cid:882)"s and early (cid:883)(cid:889)(cid:891)(cid:882)"s residents accounted for about one half of (cid:498)newfoundland which had always been a fishery based around an island, would finally become a colony based on a fishery(cid:499)
